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This chapter describes in detail the tasks of mission operations execution phases. The basics concerning the different phases during LEOP, commissioning, routine and disposal phase are explained. The differences are described as well as the necessary team members and the support from other teams. Various examples and procedures are discussed, and the transition between the phases is presented in detail. Finally, some examples of different missions for LEO, GEO, deep space missions and human spaceflight are given. This chapter will mainly concentrate on operating unmanned spacecraft from ground, but special aspects of human spaceflight missions will be mentioned where relevant.
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Eberle, S., Uhlig, T., Faller, R., Schmidhuber, M. (2022). Mission Operations Execution. In: Sellmaier, F., Uhlig, T., Schmidhuber, M. (eds) Spacecraft Operations. Springer Aerospace Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88593-9_5
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